Chocolate cake spiked with a dash of orange

This is how I fight weekday blues. By baking! This recipe is for chocolate cake spiked with a little bit of orange for that extra zest.

Dry ingredients:

2 cups of self raising flour
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of baking powder
A pinch of salt
80g-100g of chocolate of your choice

Wet ingredients:

1 cup of soft unsalted butter
1 cup of castor sugar
2 eggs
1 cup of yogurt
1 tsp of vanilla essence
Zest and juice of 1 orange

Method:

1. Sift the dry ingredients in a bowl. Lightly mix and set aside.
2. In a different bowl, start by beating the butter and sugar together. You can use an electric beater or hand held whisk.
3. At this point, I will grease my baking dish as well and set aside. The baking dish that will be best suited for the mixture for this recipe should have a 9 inch diameter and about 2-3 inches of depth.
4. Start preheating you oven at 180C.
5. Beat until the mixture turns light and airy.
6. Beat in the eggs one by one. Keep whisking.
7. Add in the yogurt, vanilla essence, juice of orange and orange zest. Give it a good whisk.
8. Break the chocolate into small pieces and add to the bowl of dry ingredients. Coating the chocolate with flour prevents it from sinking to the bottom while the cake bakes.
9. Use cut and fold method to incorporate the dry ingredients to this bowl.
10. Try adding the mixture in parts so you don't knock the air you just built into the wet mixture through whisking it.
11. Once the mixture has been incorporated, transfer to the baking dish greased per step 3.
12. Place the dish in the oven and and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
13. Test the readiness by inserting a skewer in the center of the cake close to the 35 minute mark. If it comes out clean, your cake is cooked all the way through.
14. Turn the oven off and remove the cake from it. Use oven mitts!
15. Allow it to cool enough to be able to touch the dish with bare hands.
16. De-mould the cake. I like to dust it with a sprinkle of icing sugar and some fruits.
17. Take photos of the cake and share the love with your friends on social media.
18. Enjoy!
19. Don't forget to tell me how it turned out